Question

I can't seem to get CGI::Session registered with twiki. I have installed it on a computer on which I do not have root access.

I installed CGI:Session in ~/perl using "perl -MCPAN -e shell" and I can see it at ~/perl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/CGI .

I thought I could get twiki to find this by setting either $CPANBASE or @localPerlLibPath in bin/LocalLib.cfg, but no matter what values they have, the config script can't find the module.

I have not tried to set up Apache authentication, because I really don't understand that at all.

Thanks for any pointers you can give.

Environment

-- AlanHarper - 05 Jul 2007

Answer

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Don't use the ~ prefix: This is a shortcut notation for your home directory, but the web server will not be able to find it. Try /home/aharper/perl instead, or install CGI::Session under ~/public_html/twiki/lib/CPAN/lib/.

I am surprised that in your configure output there's no hint for your added directories for $CPANBASE. Is it possible that you have a syntax error in your LocalLib.cfg? Such an error would be suppressed silently....

-- HaraldJoerg - 05 Jul 2007

Thank you. I will try all this, and review my LocalLib.cfg, a syntax error there might explain other issues.

I thought I read that it was a security risk to put extensions in my publicly-accessible directory. But unless I hear otherwise, I will do this--it will be much easier to maintain.

-- AlanHarper - 06 Jul 2007

Well, you were right, LocalLib.cfg was missing a semicolon.

It turns out that CGI::Session gets installed in a long series of sub-directories, and I had to move it by hand to a place where twiki could find it.

I ran

% perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/aharper/public_html/twiki/CPAN/lib
% make
% make test
% make install

I must say this seemed a little harder than it needed to be, and I could never get the $CPANBASE variable to do anything useful.

Thanks for your help.

-- AlanHarper - 07 Jul 2007

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